Hair-roll.



PATENTED APR. 25, 1905.

C. V. DOSSONB.

HAIR ROLL.

APPLICATION FILED mm 15,1904.

mm raa. rin/1110 OMM WITNESSES IINITED STATES Patented April 25, 1905.

ATENT FFICE.

HAIR-ROLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,903, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed June 15, 1904. Serial No. 212,638.

lie it known that I, CnARLns V. DOssoNm, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and 1 useful Improvements in Hair-Rolls, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure I is a front elevation showing the preferred form of the invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing a modified form of the invention. Fig. I is a section on line I I, Fig. 3.

This invention relates to that kind of supports or rolls for ladies hairsometimes termed rats, which are formed of line elastic wire braided into tubular form, the wire at the ends of the tube being bunched together and firmly secured. Usually the roll is covered by a netting of cotton thread or the like, which is secured at the ends. Heretofore these rolls were liable when worn to become displaced.

The main object of my present invention is to provide a simple means whereby the roll may be secured in proper position to the hair of the wearer.

Referring to the drawings, 1/ is a roll made of a piece of braided wire of tubular form, the free ends 1/ being flattened and the wires bunched together and bent over upon themselves in the usual way.

I insert in and through the flattened ends of the roll two eyelets I, Fig. 2, the proper distance apart to receive the shanks of an ordinary hair-pin c.

In using the device the roll is applied to the head of the wearer in the usual way, the hair being combed back over the roll, and the latter is secured to the hair by passing the shanks of the hair-pin through the eyelets Z) into the hair and thrusting the free ends of the hairpin through interstices between the wires into the interior of the tube, shown. Thus the roll will be securely held in place, and the points of the pin, being protected, caunotcome against the scalp of the wearer. \Vhen, which is commonly the case, the roll is covered with tubular netting (I, the ends of the netting may be bent over upon the flattened ends of the wire fabric and the eyelets passed through it,

., the netting, as well as the wire, and clenched on the opposite side, thus securely holding said ends of the netting, as shown.

Instead of two eyelets there may be used but a single one at each end, in which case a suitable pin would be used in lieu of a double shank or hair-pin for securing the roll to the hair.

Instead of using ordinary eyelets I. sometimes employ the construction illustrated in Figs. 3 and I. This consists in What may be termed a staple-eyelet, formed of an ordinary wire staple a, which is forced through the flattened end of the roll u and the ends of the shanks turned over, so as to form eyesf for the passage of the shanks of a hair-pin c, as shown in said figures.

Having thus described my invention, 1. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A tubular ln'aided-wire hair-roll, having its free ends flattened and having eyelets secured to and passing transversely through said ends respectively, adapted to receive a pin for securing the roll to the hair, substantially as and for the purpose specilied.

2. A tubular, braided-wire hair-roll, having its free ends flattened, and having a tubular net covering, and having eyelets secured to and passing transversely through said ends respectively and through said covering, Whereby said covering is fastened to said ends, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto atfixed my signature this 23d day of May, A. I). 1904:.

CHARLES V. DOSSONE.

\Vitnesses:

Geo. L. Ro'ru, ar/run G. Pussy. 

